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by rectang 5mo ago
In my anecdotal experience there is a huge gap between GPT-5-mini which hallucinates relentlessly and Claude Opus or the latest GPTs which are fairly reliable. I'm hoping that gap can be closed with improved approaches for small model
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by rectang 5mo ago
Onkalo is the best approximation so far of of a memory hole for nuclear waste — but Finland has not agreed to accept all the world’s nuclear waste, similar sites are not available for all countries, and in practice storage remains a major p
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by rectang 5mo ago
There are a number of pro-nuclear advocates on this page who can’t just engage in good faith but instead dismiss and deride their interlocutors as “crazy”, “paranoid”, “fear mongers“. It’s infuriating because the origins of anti-nuclear se
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by rectang 5mo ago
Brazil nuts and bananas are radioactive too, compared to other foods — but do not pose risks compared to coal ash. Similarly, while coal ash is nasty stuff that kills lots of people, it lacks many of the qualities that make spent nuclear fu
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by rectang 5mo ago
Seems to me that pro-nuclear sentiments have at least as much to do with ongoing accumulation of nuclear waste as anti-nuclear sentiments. > Worrying about expanding nuclear and ending up putting the waste in a hole deep in the ground i
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by rectang 5mo ago
I don't trust the coal industry to manage forever chemicals over the long term, and I don't trust the nuclear industry to manage spent nuclear fuel over the long term. The question that matters for both industries is what bad thin
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by rectang 5mo ago
I distrust techno-optimist promises to manage ever-growing collections of spent nuclear fuel over millennia. We can hardly trust plant operators to manage it safely over decades. Will it actually get encased successfully, will it be stored
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by rectang 5mo ago
And perhaps meaningfully contributed to a reduction in the quantity of radioactive waste products requiring custodianship on a timescale that humans can barely conceive of let alone commit to or execute responsibly.
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by rectang 5mo ago
They don’t perceive that their principles are being violated. They asked nicely for a general explanation. How about giving them an equally nice answer in return instead of issuing a combative condemnation of their character?
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by rectang 5mo ago
I love that article, but the words "move", "fast", and "break" don't appear in it.
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by rectang 5mo ago
I agree, Claude has been pretty great at explaining code. It even does well at explaining to me old code that I wrote by hand — including both non-intuitive quirks and flaws. Claude in its default configuration has untapped potential for e
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by rectang 5mo ago
The default for Claude today is "no comments". Here's a conversation I had with Claude about it recently: --- Me: I've notice that Claude is deleting my comments and tends not to insert many of its own. I don't wan
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by rectang 5mo ago
By default, Claude is set to avoid comments. Eventually I got tired of it deleting my own explanatory comments and overrode the behavior with an addition to CLAUDE.md. I think Claude is just behaving like all those programmers who make a VE
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by rectang 5mo ago
My eyes aren't great and I had to pinch-zoom to read parts of this page.
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by rectang 5mo ago
I didn't either. This is an ancient debate that can never be resolved completely, though — because the articles that HN submissions point to don't follow a style guide and there are always assumptions about audience priors. Best
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by rectang 5mo ago
Thanks! Happy to have my comment hidden by the mods if they get around to it.
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by rectang 5mo ago
a16z = "Andreessen Horowitz", for those not in the know. (The acronym is not expanded in the article. EDIT: OP has fixed the article.)
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by rectang 5mo ago
/ponder .oO( any irrational number has "infinite nines" ) /ponder .oO( i must be one of today's lucky 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/ )
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by rectang 5mo ago
By one metric, yes! If you are a candidate who wants to be hired, and your target employers use LLMs to filter resumes, then an LLM-generated resume that the employer LLM-powered resume filters favor is "better" — as in "more
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by rectang 5mo ago
At some point, there will be a successful copyright infringement suit against an LLM user who redistributes infringing output generated by an LLM. It could be the NYTimes suit, or it could be another, but it's coming — after which the
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by rectang 5mo ago
You're making me nostalgic for santorum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22...
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by rectang 5mo ago
Copyright laundering is an illusion. If the LLM generates output that a court decides is sufficiently derivative, and especially (but not necessarily) if the LLM was trained on the source material being infringed, then whoever redistributes
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by rectang 5mo ago
I once thought the same about all the copyrighted works on which LLMs are currently trained. Surely they can't just hoover everything up? Haha, silly me. I understand that creating an LLM itself is transformative, but an LLM trained
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by rectang 5mo ago
Will Blender start allowing Anthropic to train on your art automatically unless you opt-out?
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by rectang 5mo ago
Neither the Butler, Pennsylvania nor the White House Correspondents Dinner incidents were staged — that's conspiracy theory nutter nonsense. (Not that there aren't elements within the Trump administration who might contemplate a f
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by rectang 5mo ago
With your focus on death as punishment — the day after an apparent assassination attempt no less — it seems we have less in common than I supposed. I’m not with you after all.
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by rectang 5mo ago
I'm very much with you for "punish" and "jail", but if you are insisting on execution like commenters upthread, we will part ways there.
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by rectang 5mo ago
Trying to find a silver lining and think positively... Will a future administration have an opportunity to build something new and better from scratch which would not have been possible due to institutional resistance before it was all burn
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by rectang 5mo ago
Commoditization will be complete for my purposes when an LLM trained on a legitimately licensed corpus can achieve roughly what Opus 4.5+ or the highest powered GPTs can today. I anticipate a Napster-style reckoning at some point when there
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by rectang 5mo ago
I have ethical qualms to varying degrees with most LLMs, primarily because of copyright laundering. I'm a BSD-style Open Source advocate who has published a lot of Apache-licensed code. I have never accepted that AI companies can just

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